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Ring packing (Garlock)

Documents in our library describe Ring packing (Garlock) as “garlock-358 "o" center forge ring packing ... constructed of asbestos cloth frictioned with a tenacious rubber compound”.1 They give it as sold from 1883.2 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.

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What each document says

Every statement about Ring packing (Garlock) in the documents, in each document's own words.

Garlock Packing Service: Catalog A-1925 (1927)

  • Description: “GARLOCK-358 "O" Center Forge Ring Packing ... constructed of asbestos cloth frictioned with a tenacious rubber compound”, p. 241

Label: Garlock ring packing (The Garlock Packing Co.), Image

  • Sold from: “Date of First Use in Commerce: 1883”, said by The Garlock Packing Company, as recorded by U.S. Patent Office trademark file2

Asbestos Magazine, 1942, March 1942

  • Description: “the first successful ring packing was cut from a flattened section of worn-out water hose”, p. 303

Garlock Packing Company: Garlock Packings and Other Garlock Products, Catalog J (1949)

  • Description: “Garlock 1010 is made of accordion-folded, Garlock asbestos cloth frictioned with a special Garlock rubber compound.”, p. 1254

Kind of product

We list Ring packing (Garlock) with cloth, tape and other textiles, gaskets and packing and brakes and friction materials, from how the documents describe it. Those pages explain how such products exposed workers.

Trades that worked with products like it: Pipefitters and Plumbers, Millwrights, Machinists, and Industrial Mechanics, Auto Mechanics and Brake Workers.

Cloth, tape and other textiles by other makers (301)

Min-k (Johns-Manville) · Pyrotex (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Thermobestos pipe covering · Novabestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Sal-mo (Nicolet) · R/M Style 25 Thermal Insulating Tape (Raybestos-Manhattan) · R/M Style 41-Rpd Pyrotex Yarns (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Railko (Small & Parkes) · Raybestex (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Red Ram (Elliott Glove) · Rhinobestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Rico (Record Industrial) · RM 24 H120 (Raybestos-Manhattan) · RM 7504 (Raybestos-Manhattan) · RM or R/M (Raybestos-Manhattan) · RM Style 25 (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Rra 1000 (Elliott Glove) · Runwel (Greene Tweed & Co.) · Russo (A. W. Chesterton) · Rwl-100 (H. K. Porter) · and 281 more: all cloth, tape and other textiles

Other gaskets and packing by Garlock (2)

Garlock · Asbestos Sheet

Gaskets and packing by other makers (209)

Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Flexatallic (Flexatalic Gasket Corp.) · Jewett (Johns-Manville) · Spirotallic (Johns-Manville) · Aztec (Asbestos Textile Co.) · R/M E-66 (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Railroad Brake Shoes (Johns-Manville) · Ray-Mold (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Red Mastite (Aberdeen Industries) · Reinz-Repa (Reinz-Dichtungs-Gesellschaft M. B. H.) · Reinz-Super-Spezial (Reinz-Dichtungs-Gesellschaft M. B. H.) · Reinzolit (Reinz-Dichtungs-Gesellschaft M. B. H.) · Rk (Istag Ag) · Robot Packing (Armor Products) · Runwel (Greene Tweed & Co.) · Russo (A. W. Chesterton) · S (Herbert A. Greene) · Sceptre (Beldam Packing & Rubber Company) · Sea Ring Packing (Johns-Manville) · Sea-ro (Chester M. Roe) · and 189 more: all gaskets and packing

See also

  • Garlock: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
  • Garlock on our products page: what the documents say about the company's asbestos products, with sources

References

  1. Garlock Packing Service: Catalog A-1925 (January 1, 1927), p. 24.
  2. Label: Garlock ring packing (The Garlock Packing Co.), Image.
  3. Asbestos Magazine, 1942, March 1942 (March 1, 1942), p. 30.
  4. Garlock Packing Company: Garlock Packings and Other Garlock Products, Catalog J (January 1, 1949), p. 125.

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